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California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech
Academic Freedom

California AB 715, Criminalizing Criticism of Israel, Aims to Quash Free Speech

H. Scott Prosterman

Censoring academic content does nothing to promote “a safe learning environment,” as Newsom’s signing statement concludes.

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COP30 Report Reveals Climate Change is Spreading Infectious Diseases to new Regions

COP30 Report Reveals Climate Change is Spreading Infectious Diseases to new Regions

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Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

Escalating the Escalation: A Short History of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump

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In Height of Hypocrisy, Nuclear-Armed Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran, which has no weapons or program, for "crossing all red Lines"

In Height of Hypocrisy, Nuclear-Armed Israeli PM Bennett slams Iran, which has no weapons or program, for “crossing all red Lines”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that far-right Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, in his address to the U.N. General […]

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Afghanistan
Are the Taliban Russia's Problem now?  Moscow Rushes to Arm Tajikistan

Are the Taliban Russia’s Problem now? Moscow Rushes to Arm Tajikistan

Belgrade (Special to Informed Comment) – Tensions rise between the Taliban – the de facto rulers of Afghanistan – and neighboring Russia-backed Tajikistan. The radical […]

Nikola Mikovic

Israel/ Palestine
Gaza’s children choose between working and starving

Gaza’s children choose between working and starving

By Aseel Kabariti | – Gaza ( We Are Not Numbers) – Child labor takes many forms. Many people picture a child in a factory, […]

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Crime
More guns, pandemic stress and a police legitimacy crisis created perfect conditions for homicide spike in 2020

More guns, pandemic stress and a police legitimacy crisis created perfect conditions for homicide spike in 2020

By Justin Nix | – Homicides in the U.S. spiked by almost 30% in 2020. That was the main takeaway from figures released on Sept. […]

The Conversation

Climate Crisis
Israeli Youth Protest Israel-UAE Oil Pipeline that Endangers Climate, Key Coral Reefs: The Dark Side of "Abraham Accords"

Israeli Youth Protest Israel-UAE Oil Pipeline that Endangers Climate, Key Coral Reefs: The Dark Side of “Abraham Accords”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The so-called Abraham Accords, which take the patriarch’s name in vain, were about many things, but genuine peace was not […]

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Inequality
If even the Democratic Party can't raise Taxes on the Super-Rich, is the US even a Democracy Any More?

If even the Democratic Party can’t raise Taxes on the Super-Rich, is the US even a Democracy Any More?

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – The struggle over efforts to revise and reform the tax code offers left and labor activists as […]

John Buell

African-Americans
Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties

Haitian migrants at the border: An asylum law scholar explains how US skirts its legal and moral duties

By Karen Musalo | – The U.S.’s top envoy to Haiti resigned abruptly on Sept. 22, 2021, over the Biden administration’s “inhumane” treatment of Haitian […]

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Drones
The Names You’ll Never Know:  A Blue Kia and a Wall of Carnage on the Washington Mall

The Names You’ll Never Know: A Blue Kia and a Wall of Carnage on the Washington Mall

( Tomdispatch.com) – As a parting shot, on its way out of Afghanistan, the United States military launched a drone attack that the Pentagon called […]

Nick Turse

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Palestinian Parties, Organizations Greet Abbas's Pledge to take Israel to Int'l  Court as "Historic" and Roadmap

Palestinian Parties, Organizations Greet Abbas’s Pledge to take Israel to Int’l Court as “Historic” and Roadmap

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – al-Quds [Jerusalem] reports that Palestinians in the West Bank greeted President Mahmoud Abbas’s UN speech, in which he pledged to […]

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